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GARDAÍ RECOVERED TWO firearms and arrested two people in operations in Dublin targeting drugs related criminal activity.
Shortly after 11pm last night a male cyclist in his 40s was stopped in the Shangan Gardens area of Ballymun and a loaded firearm was recovered.
The man was arrested and is currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939, at Ballymun Garda Station.
Today a follow up search was conducted by the Ballymun and Finglas Drugs Units with assistance from other local units, at a house in the Finglas area.
In the course of the search a machine pistol, two loaded magazines, two silencers and a quantity of ammunition was recovered.
A woman in her 50s was arrested and is also currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939, at Ballymun Station.
All of the items seized will be sent for ballistic and forensic examination.
A garda spokesperson said investigations are ongoing.
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I think we are approaching the perfect storm in Ireland. Everything is falling apart all at once. Property prices, rents, underpaid public workers now all striking at once. Increasing childcare costs, no support for the government… what a time to be in FG!!
Public sector needs reform with the disbanding of unions and professional contracts for our teachers and guards that are not linked to tenure. On the housing front we need high rise in certain areas of Dublin.
What’s with you and teachers? You have an agenda as you’ve nothing good to say on them or their profession. Some of the largest class sizes in Europe and new entrants paid pittance, that together with rising house prices and ridiculous rents means a husband and wife teacher or guard cannot even think of buying in Dublin or the commuter belt and hope to start a family. But go ahead, those bad teachers and your agenda.
Underpaid Public workers?
Hi rise is that because there is land shortage or just maximising developers pockets
James, out of curiosity which ” certain” areas in Dublin are most suited to high rise buildings ?
Hi=high
@Catherine Mc: The areas that aren’t anywhere near him?
Daisy, that is what I was thinking.
James, you must be a secondary school drop out. Don’t be ashamed of it.
Let’s keep the recovery going.
I do wish people would stop coming out with ‘The government must do/act……’. The government are not going to do a damned thing except throw out some soundbites and bide their time til they’re thrown out, FF will come in, do the same (as in nothing), get thrown and it’ll be FGs turn again. And so it goes…
James Darcy: yeah, lets make conditions even worse for workers in your thatcherite dreamland. That’ll solve homelessness alright
I have been looking for a place for someone with 2 kids. She can not go over 1,400 that’s the max that she can go. No where to be found. The ones that she has looked at and applied for have gone or they wont take rent allowance. Horrible thinking that you and your kids are going to be homeless. Great place we live in (sigh)
All our professional people are leaving this country – Our Garda, our teachers, our doctors and nurses Ireland will be even more strained in the coming years that we will have no one to fill these positions and we won’t have to worry about unions or pay structures.
You’ve just got to love Ireland!
Successive governments have failed this country. Nothing has changed over the last 10 years. What an opportunity we had to redistribute the wealth, but successive FF and FG governments facilitated making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The current govt are on the payroll of lobbyists too. Ireland is no better off than it was in 2006. Despite whatever spin they tell you, the future is more uncertain than ever…..
Someone is making a fortune on the backs of others.
Ireland is a failed society where 1 income is insufficient to put a roof over your head.
Call for Referendum on “Right2Home” in Ireland … amend Constitution like Germany.
https://www.change.org/p/referendum-on-right2home-in-ireland
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